Welcome to Dahmerbu's podcast. I am Dominic and I am blessed. I am
very blessed that you were here with me today. You really could have been
doing anything else, but he chose to be here with me listening to a
guy talking a microphone in his living room. And it really does mean a
lot. You guys have been with me for a lot of years now,
a little over three years now, and you've been supporting the show just through
your streams, your download your likes, your shares, your comments. Some
of you have been supporting financially, which really does mean a lot. But
I've loved being on this journey with you guys so much that I started just
to improve on my mental health and I think it's gone a long way for
me. I wouldn't change it or take it back for anything, and I
hope you guys have been able to do the same thing for yourself. It
really is cool that we've been able to do this together in a very simple,
simple way. Whether you're listening on Apple podcasts or Spotify or Google podcasts
or iHeartRadio, it is really cool that you're here. Thank you guys so
much. Let's get in the episode so here we go. We've got another
episode. This is fantastic. We've got a whole new vibe, all new
music, a whole new feel, a whole new format, whole new color
palette, a whole new profile picture. We are we are moving up in
the world. You guys. This is awesome. I feel great. A
little bit of spring cleaning for the podcast. This is exciting. It feels
fresh, it feels feels new. It is still me talking, so it's
it's not gonna be awesome, but it's gonna. It's gonna feel awesome,
right, it's gonna feels it will feel springy or something. It's gonna it's
just gonna happen. It will, okay, But I'm very excited about it.
And it was kind of one of those things that I was just kind
of sitting around. I actually had listened and it's one of the few times
where I actually have done this. It's one of a few times I've actually
gone back and listen to an episode and realize, you know, what I
might be onto something, I might be onto something with the slight rebrand that
I kept referring to. And I only did one thing, and I changed
the picture of the podcast from me sitting in a yellow rain jacket with it
all the way zepped up where you can't see my face. I changed it
from that to a picture where you can see me talking and I'm doing a
video in front of all my equipment here where you can see me. You
just see my face and a Microphone's great, or maybe it's not great,
I don't know, but it feels more personable. I don't know, because
some of you've never seen me before, so now you have seen me,
and that's awesome. Congratulations, there's my face. But I just wanted to
like really dig into that, and I really liked the idea of that,
like mild rebrand. So I got a team together and I figured out,
Hey, what are ways that I can do kind of a rebrand where I'm
still kind of genuine and true to the thing and true to the people that
have been listening to me, And it doesn't feel like I'm I'm taking him
an entirely different direction. It's just an updated version of the thing that we're
doing. And we came up with a bunch of different things, new music,
which was awesome. It changes the whole vibe and feeling aesthetic, and
it's been a little bit different because I've had the same music now almost since
the beginning. As soon as I figured out how to put in music and
episodes, UM, I've had basically the same like handful of songs going through
the episodes. So that's that's been a big thing. I wanted to touch
on like bullet points basically, like you, weren't things where I touch on
in the episodes, like UM, like I did in the beginning, how
to, how to subscribe, how to reach me, you know, things
like that, And I really, I really think those things will kind of
elevate the podcast. I think it will elevate your listening to experience and my
UM experiencing, my experience in delivering said messages to you. And I think
it's I think it's great. If you guys have any other UM inputs or
things you would like to add to the show, that'd be fantastic as well.
I don't think it's uh, my way or the highway here. I
don't think I have like all the answers. I'm just the guy sitting in
my living room talking into microphone and so like, this is great. But
I was really listening back to one of my other episodes, which is something
that I rarely will ever ever do. And I thought to myself, you
know what, you might be onto something here with this slight rebrand. Maybe
you should just think about that and kind of lean into it. Because I
refreshed the picture, I talked about it, and then something about that just
felt lighter. It felt it felt like there was just potential to really delve
in and reset and and you know, I guess give give new life to
something that's that's been around for a long time, three years now, and
it was just a simple thing. So great. I hope you guys enjoy
if you want to reach me, um, if you want to continue to
see that new process kind of evolved into what it's going to be, go
on Facebook Dahm Reviews Podcast search it there, Go on Instagram Dahm Reviews Podcast
search that as well. And I will be there. And it's just a
lot of little things. I'm gonna keep all the other and all the other
posts and things up there, and eventually, you know, they will kind
of disappear unless you like really start scrolling down, which is fine. I
don't like this. I don't like really deleting things like that, but yeah,
it's it's gonna be awesome. I think it's gonna be a little bit
cleaner. I think it will be more I mean it guess. I guess
it will be a little bit simpler for people to interact with, to like,
and to share, and you feel like you actually want to be able
to do that, which is fun. Which is interesting because I don't get
really any kind of engagement on social media, which is amazing. With the
amount of people that listen to my podcast and as little engagement that I get
on social media, it is kind of shocking. It is a little bit
shocking to see like the disparity in those two numbers. It's really hard to
believe. The guys that I was talking to, like working on with the
team, there's like, well, here's my numbers like listening like to my
episodes over the platforms and like, wow, it's pretty respectable. And then
I was like look at my like social media numbers, and they're like wow,
like how like have you spent money on this, Like have you done
any ads or anything? No, No, I've not, but it's really
interesting. So you guys can help me very quickly by just going to my
Facebook page, Like in my Facebook page again, Dom Reviews podcast again,
going to my Instagram Dom Reviews Podcasts as well, and helping me get my
numbers up because I have not been able to do this without you. Guys
are liking and sharing, but you're not doing it on social media. You're
just like telling your friends about it by actual word of mouth. I mean,
which I can't be upset with. I will never be upset with that.
It's just like very hard. I don't know, it's just it's a
very interesting way, and I didn't expect the growth to happen in that way,
kind of just like the good old days, which is really funny.
But anyways, this brings me to my question today. And there's a word
that my wife likes to use a lot, and I've heard it over the
last like actual couple of weeks, not actually coming from her. There's a
word called synchronicity, and she loves saying that word synchronicity. I think she
just likes the way that it feels when she says that. You have words
like that, like I like the word disgusting. I think it's such a
vivid, fantastic word. She likes synchronicity, which sounds much more educated than
the word disgusting, but synchronicity, and I think I've had a few of
those in the last couple of weeks, which is really cool. So the
question that I have today is what could use a makeover in your life?
If I could give you a quick story about the last handful of days in
my life. So I did. Last week, I did the episode,
so that was kind of the start of that, and I changed the profile
picture and that was a slight makeover there. Great. Then this last weekend
I had the wife, I had Jeanie. She went off on a trip
on the over the weekend to see some like old family friends in Utah.
So she was out there from I think it was Friday to Sunday Sunday night,
I think it was, which is great. It's just like a time
for her to let go and see family friends whatever, do her thing.
And so in that time I had changed again the profile picture. And then
on Saturday, I had our hot water heater break and so I had to
replace that. But even the week before that we had gutted and completely rebuilt
our deck. I had my dad come over here and he replaced the whole
deck in literally like two days. It's pretty incredible how he does that stuff.
I don't know how he does it. I was telling Jeanie the other
day, I was like looking at it because it was raining, and I
was saying, watch, I was just watching the water just sitting still after
it stopped raining, and I realized, like, I don't know if you're
supposed to do that, but my dad built it like perfect like literally perfectly
flat, so the water the water doesn't drain off, And I don't know
if that's like I don't know if that's what you're supposed to do or which
you're supposed to like build things at just like a slight slope so the so
it drains. I don't know they do that with like soccer fields and football
fields. So there's like a mild grade, but nope, like there's no
there's no grade, no slope, nothing. It's it's perfectly flat all the
way all the way through. But like he wouldn't have it any other way.
I guess I wouldn't have any other way either. So we did that.
We fixed the sink. It's got a bunch of leaks in it,
whatever, and it's just been a lot of things, like my brother Aaron
has basically he rebuilt his deck as well that we have been over at his
house and cleaned up a bunch of the stuff in his backyard. We've got
like a family reunion coming into town, so it's just been like a lot
of days of like work to get prepped for that and things breaking and blah
blah blah, and so our entire life has felt like spring cleaning slash makeover.
So the question today is what could use a makeover in your life?
Everything? And it's that's a simple answer because everything has already gotten a makeover
in my life and it all started. It all started with the profile picture,
and then I had to stop and really think about all the other things
that have happened. But then just how much better I feel for having done
that. No, I don't want to have to replace my hot water heater.
Not a great purchase that I wanted to make right now, And that's
okay, But hey, guess what, I have really great hot water now
and I don't have as many problems with it, like I don't know,
leaking like it was, which is a huge issue because they can explode.
Did you know that? So if your hot water heater is like leaking at
all or giving you any trouble, you should just replace it because it's pretty
dangerous. So I think it's fantastic. I think it's fantastic. I think
for years I would always have trouble with, you know, changing things up
and kind of elements of forced change, I guess. But every bit of
it that's been in the last few weeks for me has been actually really great
and really beneficial. So where I could take something that I've done for years
in this podcast and feel okay, going to a team of people and being
like, hey, how can we maximize on this very simply and then just
try and execute and then just execute it and just do just run the play
and just run the play. And I think it's really exciting. I think
it's it opens up a world of opportunities and what if it's the wrong answer,
right, Like that's what you're afraid of, right, like that,
what if what if you do it and it sucks, It's like, well
then I change it, right, Like, it's not it's not the end
of the world. It's not like there's a billion people listening to it this
podcast. Even if there were a billion people listening to it, and I
kept this, you know, kind of context in this format and the the
aesthetic on social media. I kept it going for a while and nobody liked
it. I can change it, and it's it's not that big of a
deal. And I think that's awesome, and I think it's something that I
have to remind myself every once in a while to just chill out and not
be afraid of change because I'm so used to doing a thing a certain way,
because change brings inspiration. An inspiration brings creativity, which is my whole
life as a musician, Like that is my whole life. So and it's
it's just simple things, you know. Like sometimes I'll go into the studio
and we'll be like, oh, we need this drum, this drum thing.
Hey, what can we do? You know what? I could just
go in and play a drumbeat this way, or I can do something super
weird sometimes every once in a while and I will, you know, take
my snare drum and flip it upside down, or take my snare drum and
not have it between my legs. I'll have it where my floor tom is,
which is for U non drummers. It's the one that it's the big
one that sits on my far side, my right side, that everybody loves.
It sounds like that doesn't make any sense. It sounds like Mordoor when
I hit it. If you don't know what Mordoor is, I don't know
what to tell you. I don't know what to tell you. It sounds
like drums of the Deep. It's fantastic at least, mind you. Anyways,
So every once in a while, you know, I'll do something weird
and you know, move my drums around or play them in a different way,
or play set up my kit left handed, something something weird that makes
me moderately or extremely uncomfortable that will inspire me to do something in a different
way or come out playing like, you know, doing something that I've always
done, just a slightly different way. And the process is, I don't
know, it's awesome. It's awesome. So don't be afraid of doing that.
I think it's awesome. Find something in your life where you can do
a slight change and see if it inspires any creativity, and then let me
know. Let me know about that, because that is fun to know that.
It is fun to get the feedback from everybody that is listening and goes,
oh, yeah, like you know what, I tried this and this
worked for me, and now I do blah blah blah or this inspired somebody
else to do this or YadA YadA, YadA cool and it's fantastic. And
I thoroughly enjoy doing stuff like that. I enjoy hearing stories about things like
that. And yeah, we're just here for the journey together. That's what
this podcast is about. But that's about it for all I have. I
mean, yeah, that's about all I have for today. As far as
that question, what could use a makeover in your life? And for me,
the answer A kid was everything and it has gotten a makeover and it's
been fun. It's been liberating. It feels light, feels airy, it
feels inspiring, and I was creative. And I'm curious what you've done in
your life again and if you have anything like that, if it's made you
feel the same way, or it's made you feel worse, or you've gone
back to the thing. But let me know again Instagram, Facebook, Dahm
Reviews Podcast. You can message me, you can comment on my status is
let me know what you guys think. It's really great. On my platforms.
You can find me on Apple podcasts, find me on Spotify, Google
podcasts, things like iHeartRadio, Amazon, cast Box, or even like Deezer.
I'm on so many of them. Just search, Just search Dahm reviews.
It's pretty simple. It's really great. It's not really it's not hard
to spell either. I suppose I hope it's not hard to spell if you're
like a grown adult, I guess. But anyways, thank you guys so
much. I do always want to say thank you so much for your support.
It really does mean the world to me, and it really does mean
a lot of game in that you've taken your time to spend it with me
and listening to a guy talk about makeovers in his life in his living room,
it's fantastic. So thank you guys so much. I'll see you the
next one. Good Bye.